Container for lip sticks and the like



A. JANER June 17, 1930.

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Filed Aug. 24, 1927 Patented June 17, 1930 UNITED s-TATEs- PATENT n orr cE Arman JANER, or rnusnmo, NEW Yonx, Assm voa TO THE A. J. a 1:. COMPANY, mcom'omrnn, on NEW YORK, N. Y., A conroim'rion or vEw Yon CONTAINER FOR LIP STICKS AND THE LIKE Application filed August 24, 1927i Serial No. 215,283.

This invention relates to devices for holding and feeding sticks of a material that is adapted to be worn away when used, such for example as lip-sticks and the like.

The aim of the invention is to provide an article of this sort having various features of novelty and advantage and which is particularly characterized by its simplicity in construction, its economy in manufacture, the ease and facility with which the parts may be assembled, the security with which the parts are held together after they have been assembled, and by its effectiveness and convenience in use.

A container constructed in accordance with the present invention may be very easily and Other objects will be in part obvious and in part pointed out more in after. I

The invention accordingly consists in'the features of construction, combination of e1e detail hereinments and arrangement of parts which will be exemplified in theconstruction hereinafterset forth and the scope of the application of which will be indicated in the appended claims.

In the accompanying drawings wherein is shown for illustrative purposes one of the many embodiments which the present invention may take,

Figure 1 is an elevational view of the container; I

Fig. 2 is a longitudinal central sectional view therethrough;

Fig. 3 is an explodedview showing in per spective the parts through which the lipstick'is fed or advanced; and

Fig. 4 is a sectional view of the lower end I of the casing.

Referring to thedrawings in detail, A denotes a cylindrical casing which may be made of any suitable material, such for example as celluloid composition, metal or the like; It may be made of moldable material or of metal. The internal wall of the casing is provided with a thread 10 which extends from the bottom of. the casing to adjacent the top thereof. The inner periphery of the casing at the top is smooth as at -11 and of slightly lessdiameter than the threaded portion in order to provide a guiding surface for the upper end of the lip-stick, the latter being shown in dotted lines in Fig. 2. B designates'a cap adapted to be screwed onto the upperiend of the casing.

The lower end of the lip-stick is adapted to be received by a' cup-shaped follower C having an external thread 12 adapted to cooperate with the thread 10 of the casing, whereby the follower will bemoved longitudinally of the casing when the follower is rotated. This follower maybe made of moldable material. It has at diametrically opposite sides portions cut away-in order to provide key-ways 13 which slidably receive the arms 14'of a pronged or forked-member D. This pronged member or fork has a base orv body portion 15 provided with a central opening 16 and the upstanding arms or fin-' gers 14:. The pronged member is preferably formed of thin sheet metal by stamping out a blank of the desired configuration and pronged member is such that' thearms 14 may straddle the follower C, the arms fitting in the key-ways 13 and against the inner periphery of the casing A.

The pronged memberD is connected to a knobor operating member E in such manner that when this knob is turned the pronged member will turn therewith. The knob E has a circumferential head or rim 20 of substantially the same diameter as that of the casing, and the upper face of this rim is adapted to engage the bottom edge of the casing. The knob also'has a cylindrical hub or boss 21 which is adapted to rotatably fit in the lower end of the casing. This boss 21 is of such length that the upper end thereof comes opposite to the circumferential groove 22 formed in the wall of the casing. The pronged member D is connected to the knob E by a screw F and a nut G, the latter having receive the-upper end of the screw F which extends through the knob. Preferably the knob is counterbored as at 26 in order to receive and conceal the head of the-screw. The

- base or body portion of the pronged member is'clamped by the screw between the nut and the knob, and to ensure that these three parts will not rotate relative to one another the nut is provided with a pin 27 -wh-ich extends through a hole 28 in the base 15 p and down into a recess 29 in the knob.

Inorder'tohold the parts in assembled relation, there is provided an expansible ring H adapted to fit inthe groove 22 of the casing and to be held in that groove by the upper .end of the hub portion of the knob. The

parts are of such proportions that the forked member is adapted to engage the top of the ring.

-; y The operatlon of the device will be readily understood from the drawings. knob E is turned the forked member will When the turn therewith, thereby turning the follower C with the result that the follower and the 1; lip-stick carried thereby, owing to'its threadl and the parts carried thereby cannot be pulled from the casing. v

The follower C, forked member D, vnut G, and adjacent parts constitute the inner portion of the feeding device for the lip-stick while the operating member E constitutes the second or outer portion of this feeding device.

.As many changes could be made in the above construction and many apparently widely different embodiments of this invention could be made without departing from the scope thereof, it is intended that all matter. contained 'in the 7 above description or shown in the accompanying drawing shall be used in the following claims is mten cover all of the generic and specific features.

of the invention herein described and all statements of the scope of the invention groove, a follower for en interpreted as illustrative and not'in a limiting sense.

t is also to be understood that the langnlage e to which, as a matter of language, to fall therebetween. What I claim as my invention is 1. A container for material in stick form,

might be said comprising a casing internally threaded and provided near its inner end with an annular aging said stick and having external three. or engagement the casing and having a portion for slidablyinterlocking with said follower and a. second ortion connected to the first portion and proecting from the casing for turning the feeding device, said feeding device having an annular roove therein opposite the groove in the casing, and a lockin ring adapted to seat in said grooves for holdlng the feeding device against longitudinal movement in the casing and permitting turning of the feeding device to operate the follower.

2. A container for material in stick form comprising a casing having internal threads, a follower for engaging the stick of material and having threads to engage the threads of the casing, a feeding device mounted in the inner end of the caslng and having slidable interlocking engagement with the follower, and removable securing means between the casing and the feeding device for retaining the latter against axial movement in the cas-.

ing and permitting free rotation of the feeding device. 3; In a container for material in stick form,

a casing having internal threads, a follower' adapted to engage the stick material and having threads interlocking with the threads of the casing, a feeding device comprising an inner part having arms extending lengthwise in the casing, said follower having ways therein for slidably receiving-said arms, said feeding device also having anouter part projecting from the casing, means connecting said inner and outer parts of the feeding device and the outer part having a reduced portion adjacent the inner part providing a shoulder beneath the inner part, said casing having an annular groove dis osed immediately beneath the shoulder, an a removable ring seated in said groove of the casing and promoting inwardly beneath said shoulder to old said feeding device from axial movement in the casing and permitting free turning of the feeding device.

. ANDRE. JANER.

with the internal threads of the casing, and a feeding device for advancing the follower in p 

